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Parallels Mac Management Features
8 To edit the profile data after the configuration item has been saved, right-click the profile and
select Edit Parallels Configuration Item from the pop-up menu. The Mac OS X
Configuration Profile dialog will now have the Import from .mobileconfig and Export to
.mobileconfig buttons. Using these two buttons, you can export the profile into a file, edit it in
an external application (e.g. Profile Manager) and then import it back into the configuration item.
The import operation will perform the following validations of the profile data:
• The profile type (User or System) must be the same as the original.
• If this is a signed profile, the payload identifier must be the same as the original.
• If the profile is not signed but the payload identifier differs from the original, a message box
containing this information will be displayed. You'll have an option to cancel or continue the
importing operation.
To evaluate Mac computers for compliance, you need to add the configuration item to a baseline
and then deploy it to a Mac collection. See Deploying Configuration Baseline (p. 86) for more
information.
Using Profile Manager
Profile Manager is a tool provided by Apple that allows to create a Mac OS X configuration profile
(an XML file) containing the configuration settings that your organization requires. The configuration
profile can then be deployed to Mac computers to configure them using the specified settings.
Note: You need a Mac OS X Server computer to use Profile Manager.
To create a configuration profile using Profile Manager:
1 Log in to your Mac OS X Server.
2 Open Services and find "Profile Manager" in the service list.
3 Click the On button to start the service.
4 In a Web browser, enter the URL for Profile Manager (e.g.
http://my_server.com/profilemanager/).
5 Log in to Profile Manager using an administrator account.
6 In the Library, select the profile and click the Edit button to edit it. For a complete information
about individual profile settings, see the documentation that comes with Profile Manager.
When setting up a Mac OS X profile for multiple users, it may not be possible to specify all of the
settings in advance. For example, when confiuring the Exchange payload, the user account, email
address, and password must be specified individually for each user. In a case like this, you may
allow Mac users to provide the required settings interactively when the profile is applied on a Mac.
The logic that determines whether the profile is applied on a Mac interactively or silently is as
follows: